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A new public opinion survey by Brown University’s A. Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions finds that Republican Allan Fung and Democrat Gina Raimondo are effectively tied in the governor’s race, and Democrat Peter Kilmartin leads Republican Dawson Hodgson by 13 points in the race for attorney general.

Two new public opinion surveys by Brown University’s A. Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions find that Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gina Raimondo, and Providence mayoral candidate Jorge Elorza, also a Democrat, lead their respective opponents by 10 points.

James Morone, the John Hazen White Professor of Public Policy and professor of political science and urban studies, has been appointed director of the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions. Morone will succeed Marion Orr, the Frederick Lippitt Professor of Public Policy and professor of political science and urban studies, who has directed the Taubman Center since July 2008. Morone begins his new position on July 1.